Best From Stem To Stern Poems

The finest ship of the White Star Line,
Titanic majestically sailed the brine
A floating palace of opulence
A thing of beauty and elegance

But beauty is but a fragile veneer
And conceals a truth more austere
Into the depths Europe’s poor, are thrust
Travelling in steerage like human ballast

The iceberg cut...

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If finding yourself means going it alone,
You shouldn’t—a fact that is painfully plain.
Need is a naturally human bemoan,
A collaboration helps you remain, a
Friend to those who also have needs to atone.

I'm clearing a path, a push straight ahead,
Sailing stress free in my life stem to...

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Have you ever felt like a ship,
 In bottle?
Chasing waves as they roll back,
 And forth?
A glass encased fortress that,
 Allows no escape.
Within these reflecting walls my,
 Vessel sails on ward.

Echoing chants that men have,
Song sense time Began.
Oh hear the music dance from,
 Stem to...

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There was a courtly gent name Hearn.
Who was fastidious from stem to stern.
He showered morning and night.
Kept his teeth pearly white.
But couldn't find a wife worth a durn....

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" My oh My "

Hell'sBells & a cockleshell~
Off I sail like a bat-outta-hell~
Flyin' her hulls now I'll be damned~
Into fat tanker I've now rammed!

Could’na see in dead o'night~
My oh my & oh what a sight!
Me hull she's split from stem to stern~
Me helm now nowhere...

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Bags and bags of rolls of
Wrapping paper sat in piles
By the curb as passersby
Revealed their New York guiles.

The store must not have had the room
To keep them for a year,
So why not spread the wealth around
And help them disappear?

Some people grabbed a handful
Which looked very...

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God, how I hate (when I can't go to sleep),
HATE the feeling sleep never will come.
In moments like this, I wonder if my death
Might be a lover with real potential,
Though the possibility of soul being real
Could mean death too, is but a dream fantasy.
Daylight offers...

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What a way to go we say~
What a way to play~
Hand dealt us from top the deck~
So we bet it all ... no care o'wreck~

Sailed in to an atoll's maze~
Sun a'hotter than many a day's~
High at noon was reefline seen~
Amid seaglitter & deepblue sheen~

Aback her...

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Billowy mast with fluttering sails
Along copse strand your arched brow wails
Brigand bough stretching from stem to stern doth vigor extoll
Your steady rudder anchored to the tenuous shoal  
Your searching roots navigate through availing streams
Nutrient-rich moisture funnels through your porthole
Sprouting tendrils spurt through your balmy seams
Gallant...

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A baseball team hard to follow
Failures really tough to swallow
Many problems from stem to stern
Fans' frustration in a slow burn
Managers don't know what to do
To get the Dodgers out of the blues
Too close to Hollywood it would seem
Many distractions bad for a team

Ahead by eight...

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With light might they sparkle

Karst Experiments which labors and
Chores
Might there mindfulness to produce
For who adores
Folk of value to stem and stern
Together in the name of science which
Lessons learned.

They wanted to create
A stone
A beautiful stone
One to make
Competiters envy.
Envy them into a submissive
Shame.
Might there works then be
Centered...

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I’ve never been a fortune teller
Or had a crystal ball 
I only know the here and now
And a past that says it all!

Every time they took something out
They put a new something in
It made me run much better
Enough spare parts to make a twin!

But all...

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I felt utterly sapped to the core
  that glorious August day
  and hence decided to take a rest
  under a massive shade tree
While in such a meditative
  and carefree oblivious state 
  a sticky globule of gooey tar
  oozed...

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Lord, I pantoum you on this day,
another day just like the rest.
I simply woke and ate today;
kept warm and dry, in comfort, dressed.

Another day, just like the rest.
I worked and played, then soundly slept.
Kept warm and dry, in comfort, dressed.
I saw and heard, ran, walked...

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I just returned
From where I've been.
From here to there,
And back again.
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